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archie0

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Registered: 2012-02-26

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[Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

This must be a really stupid question.

I have installed the Catalyst drivers from the repo, but in KinfoCenter I'm getting something else:

It's not a VMware installation, it's alongside Windows.

So, am I using the Catalyst drivers or not?

Thanks.

Last edited by archie0 (2012-07-10 19:21:22)

agapito

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From: Who cares.

Registered: 2008-11-13

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

Have you created a valid Xorg.conf file with

aticonfig --initial

command?

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archie0

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Registered: 2012-02-26

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

Have you created a valid Xorg.conf file with

aticonfig --initial

command?

Yes I have. I've even got HW acceleration, confirmed via vainfo, but still.

Is it a bug in KinfoCenter? Is there any other way to see more info about OpenGL?

Roken

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Registered: 2012-01-16

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

fglrxinfo

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ratcheer

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

Also, to see exactly what driver you are using, browse /var/log/Xorg.0.log and search for LoadModule (several times) until you get to the video card driver.

Tim

archie0

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Registered: 2012-02-26

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

fglrxinfo

display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11631 Compatibility Profile Context

It's installed, I know that, but it does not show up in that application.

archie0

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Registered: 2012-02-26

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

Also, to see exactly what driver you are using, browse /var/log/Xorg.0.log and search for LoadModule (several times) until you get to the video card driver.

Tim

So yeah. It's loaded. I guess it's a bug in the application?

I've also installed mesa-demos and now I can use glxinfo too. I have no idea what's wrong with it.

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

archie0:

Those pictures are a little larger than permitted by our policy.  I usually only concern myself with the byte count, rather than the pixel count.  Don't worry about these, but, in the future, please use thumbnails.  You can embed image tags to the thumbnail inside of url tags to the full size image.  This will display the thumbnail and give the reader the option to click through to the larger image.

Many of our members are on slow or metered links.  Thanks

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archie0

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

archie0:

Those pictures are a little larger than permitted by our policy.  I usually only concern myself with the byte count, rather than the pixel count.  Don't worry about these, but, in the future, please use thumbnails.  You can embed image tags to the thumbnail inside of url tags to the full size image.  This will display the thumbnail and give the reader the option to click through to the larger image.

Many of our members are on slow or metered links.  Thanks

I'm sorry but the image is just 125KB, and that's not much at all, even for a slow connection.

Anyways, is there a bug in KinfoCenter? How does it read those values? I would like to try them manually. Thanks

Last edited by archie0 (2012-07-08 06:21:47)

Inxsible

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

I'm sorry but the image is just 125KB, and that's not much at all, even for a slow connection.

That is still above the 50kb limit that has been defined in our policy.

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archie0

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Re: [Solved]Installed AMD Catalyst drivers. Are they activated?

Solved by installing GNOME instead of KDE, lol.